'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 07/06/09 00:13 did gyre and gimble: >>> You can also try hitting the mute button twice in pavucontrol to see if >>> it is another occurrence of the infamous "undetected mute on startup bug." >> Aha! That got it. After that the state went to IDLE and now I can >> hear audio. While audio is playing it goes to RUNNING and then back >> to IDLE, then back to SUSPENDED when I close pavucontrol. >> >> So looks like this is the cause. Can I help with debugging? > > Dunno if I understand the issue. Are you saying the mute status simply > got stuck in some way? This is the bug we discussed on IRC a few days back. I linked it to a mandriva bug and you said you had an equiv RHBZ one too.... https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51234 See my comment 2 for very easy reproduction steps for this problem. Also other active threads here on this list are talking about this problem too. Could also be related to this: http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/572 Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]